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  • Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law

    International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
    Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009

  • Who said, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"

    I agree that during the campaign she was remarkably racist and sexist. Both are incredibly manipulative. She is fantasic at what she does though, and brilliant. I think a lot of the abuse they ground through from the a holes of the GOP all those years made them who they are. They had to adopt an ''if you can't beat em, join em.'' I do love them ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008

  • Let's Escape Afghanistan and Iraq

    3,000 Americans have been killed by terrorism in ten years. We've invested a trillion dollars in various wars here in the last 8 years. We've lost 4000 soldiers in those wars. Contrast this with 600,000 dead of infections in hospitals. We took 2,600 FBI who were prosecuting normal crime to fighting terrorism. The murder rate is way up. We took 5 ...
    Posted to War Stories by bb_me on September 22, 2008

  • The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • Rage boy

    Hi All, Let me first start by saying that although I do not agree entirely with all that he advocates, I highly respect Christopher Hitchins' thoughtful and incisive views and the objective, factual relevance of his arguments; not just on this issue but in the majority of his essays and books. In this mass media, technology age the ability to be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Speaker's Corner on July 5, 2007